Featured Maps
Carta Esferica le las Costas y Golfo de California....hasta el Puerto de S. Diego
1825
Rare large scale map of Baja California, prepared for the Mexican Government shortly after its Independence from Spain. The map is dedicated to Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the Mexican Republic. In addition to all of Baja California,...
The First Woodcut Map of the World
1486
When it was first issued in 1482, this was the first woodcut map of the world, showing Greenland and Scandinavia, for the first time in a Ptolemaic map.This example, comes from the second edition of the first atlas to be printed in Germany, the first atla...
Carte du Theatre de la Guerre entre les Anglais et les Americains
1777
An important French map of the north American colonies at the beginning of the American Revolution, based on Jefferys' map. Separately published, it is an early issue, not noting Saratoga, nor the location of Burgoyne’s surrender to the Americ...
The San Diego Exposition / Panama-California Exposition
1912
Published also as a post card by Eno & Matteson of San Diego, in November of 1913. Townsend Brown’s view represents an early design for the Goodhue - Allen vision of the exposition after the resignation of the Olmsted first in mid-1911. In spite of intense...
The Panama Canal
1925
“Mr Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird’s-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting Canal Zone scenes, is the result” (legend on the map). “One of Owen’s ...
Map of the University of California
1939
Beautifully designed map of the University of California, extending to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, La Jolla, Mt. Hamilton and Davis campuses. “This Map of the University of California sponsored by The California Club ...
Map of San Francisco showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest.
1927
“One of the most ambitious of the early pictorial maps” (Hornsby) “Godwin’s affectionate depiction of the city is a riot of cartoon characters, buildings, trains, and watercraft” (Hornsby). Godwin’s is a very lively map, “p...
A Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park and the Jackson Hole Country. Slightly Cockeyed.
c1936
First issue, subsequently printed as a King Size mapcard in the 1950s. The Lindgren’s humorous pictorial map "Drawn in Broken English by Jolly Lindgren" features highlights of the area of the Jackson Hole country and Yellowstone National Pa...
Weekend Vacation Guide in the Western Southland
c1957
A lovely pictographic map of the US Southwest created by James Lewicki for the the Ford Motor Company and included in an edition of "Ford Times. A Car Owners Magazine". Lewicki's style, while unique, is closer to that of...
Carte de la Partie de la Virginie ou l'Armee Combinee
c1782
Esnauts and Rapilly's map is widely regarded as one of the most important of all Battle Plans of the American Revolution and one of the very few to be drawn from a French eyewitness perspective. Their fine depiction of the Battle of Yorktown is on...
